The iPhone could soon gain support for the Model Context Protocol, a move that could make third-party AI tools more useful on Apple products than ever before.
Apple is working on MCP support, iOS 26.1 code suggests.
On Monday, Apple deployed the first developer beta of iOS 26.1. Code from the software suggests that Apple is working on implementing support for the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short.
In a nutshell, MCP makes it possible for AI systems to access and interact with the data they need through a universal protocol, rather than relying on custom implementations for each data source.
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